WEF_GrowAfrica_AnnualReport2014

FOREWORD
Time to Grow!
Accelerating investments for sustainable growth in
African agriculture in support of the Comprehensive
Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP).
2014 is Africa’s Year of Agriculture and Food Security. In the context of the Comprehensive
Africa Agriculture Development Programme (CAADP), the continent’s leaders will renew
their commitment to transforming agriculture as a driver of job creation, improved incomes,
and access to nutritious food. Over the next decade, we believe Africa can not only feed
itself, but also establish itself as a prosperous continent and breadbasket for the world.
Achieving this vision requires solving two related challenges: How to commercialise production by smallholders, who
make up 80% of all farms in the region? And how to generate the vast private-sector investment by farmers, SMEs and
international companies needed to transform value chains, from farm to fork?
Foreword: Time to Grow! 1
Review of 2013: Agricultural partnerships take root across Africa 3
2014: Africa’s Year of Agriculture and Food Security 12
GROW AFRICA
1.1 About Grow Africa 14
1.2 Milestones in 2013 & 2014 17
1.3 Grow Africa’s work to tackle systemic constraints 18
COUNTRY REPORTS
Grow Africa is rallying partners to answer these questions, not in abstraction, but through bold, pioneering, inclusive
business expansion, unlocked through collaboration between farmers, companies, governments, NGOs and donors.
This annual report shares the progress, challenges and lessons of 2013, and invites a further step change in 2014 and
beyond as the continent embarks on the next phase of commitments to agriculture.
The good news is that investment is starting to move, operations are growing, and, encouragingly, companies, finance
institutions and investors are all demonstrating a serious strategic intent to work with smallholders and SMEs to
expand economic and business opportunities in agriculture. Innovations on business models, finance, technology
and public sector interests are combining to improve the commercial equation for investments along agricultural value
chains from family farms to processing facilities and service providers.
Although we have made significant progress, investment flows remain too slow to be truly transformative. Only a fraction
of Africa’s smallholders are as yet benefitting. The risks and costs of African agriculture are still too high for farmers,
SMEs, larger businesses and investors to be globally competitive. Governments must accelerate action to improve
the enabling environment in response to market priorities. The private sector must innovate and be willing to take on
and share risk. And above all, the quality, focus and scale of collaboration must improve across all partners if we are to
truly unlock the promise of our wonderfully rich and fertile continent. Let us work together. It is Africa’s time to grow!
2.1 Burkina Faso 26
2.2 Cote D’Ivoire 40
2.3 Ethiopia 54
2.4 Ghana 68
2.5 Kenya 82
2.6 Malawi 96
2.7 Mozambique 112
2.8 Nigeria 128
2.9 Rwanda 144
2.10 Tanzania 156
Dr Ibrahim Assane Mayaki
Chief Executive Officer, NEPAD Agency
Co-chairs of the Grow Africa Steering Committee
May 2014
Strive Masiyiwa
Chairman, Econet Wireless
Notes on the production of the report 172
Review of 2013 Review of 2013
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